The singer was considered one of Brazil’s greatest voices and died on Wednesday at the age of 77
Brazil lost the singer on the morning of this Wednesday 9th Gal Costa, one of the biggest voices in the country. In his more than 50-year career, Gal showed who he was, innovated, celebrated established names in music and joined new ones, especially on the latest albums.
One of the milestones of his reinvention was the record anglereleased in 2011. The album in which the singer performs new songs composed by Caetano Velosowhom she affectionately called “my composer”, she also took care of renewing her audience, winning over a younger audience.
“Our love affair is musical,” said the artist Estadio, about her relationship with Caetano when the album was released. When she was asked if it wasn’t an obligation for established artists to launch new composers, she joked and replied: “Ah, I received material from a new composer called Caetano Veloso”.
In the same year, he was preparing to go on tour with the show Live stratospheric🇧🇷 At the time when conservatives called Caetano a pedophile because of her relationship with Paula Lavigne, with whom the composer is still married, she came to her friend’s defense. “It is a very strange moment we are experiencing, not only in Brazil, but in the whole world. There is a very bad trend on the part of intolerant people, which reaches censorship. Censorship does not only come from above, it also comes from by the people”.
Still on political issues, in 2019, when the album was released The skin of the future live, Gal was emphatic in taking a stand against religious intolerance and homophobia. 🇧🇷It’s a way to defend black culture, black religion, of which I am a part. I come from the candomblé of Dona Menininha do Gantois, a great woman, beautiful, black, wise “, she said about the album Obatalá – Homage to Mother Carmenreleased that year.
In the same interview, the singer criticized the censorship suffered by a comic during the Rio de Janeiro Book Biennial because two characters kissing appeared on the cover. “When I saw on television that (Mayor Marcelo) Crivella had censored the kiss of two men (in the book) at the Bienal do Rio, I saw people saying that he had allowed them to sell the books in a black wrapper, I remembered the (record) India, because with India, released in the 70s, it was like that. My record had to be sold in a black wrapper, there was nothing special “, recalled the episode of censorship of his album .
“With the federal government we have today, we’re scared of the statements, the way things are handled. People who lived under the dictatorship are afraid that this will come backit’s in the atmosphere,” he continued, referring to Bolsonaro’s administration as president.
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